The World Bank’s Financial Inclusion and Infrastructure Practice has launched a new website on Responsible Finance, centered around financial capability and financial consumer protection. Survey data is available for surveys conducted on the users (demand side) and providers (supply side) of financial services. The demand side data features household surveys on financial capability/literacy, with more country surveys to be uploaded soon. Data and findings from the new global survey on consumer protection and financial literacy (of 114 economies) will also shortly be available.

In another data update, the Global Remittance Price update now has data through the third quarter of 2013 for 220 remittance corridors. The most expensive corridor to send money is South Africa to Malawi, where it costs an average of $23.63 to send $200, whereas the cheapest is Singapore-Thailand, where it only costs $1.37 to send $200.